...whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piereing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse,...studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity, and able judgment, have been persuaded...

...whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the teachers,—a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy...point the highest that human capacity can soar to Now once again, by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as...

...nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to ! ' A nation not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous,...

...master-minds : — " LoBDS AND COMMONS OF ENGLAND, consider what nation it is whereof ye are — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity...

...And wherefore, I would ask you, not ? Consider what we are and have been — ' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity...

...of England I consider what nation It is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." — MILTON. "If we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall...

...of England ! consider what nation It Is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." — MILTON. "If we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as welt as we can, long hereafter we shall...

...Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors ; a nation, not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing...

...-jrJrereOi ye tfre, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of <a «qtilcfc*, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent,...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." — MILTON. "If we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall...

...materials of knowledge, such Chained Bible. a people would Le educating itself to become "a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse." t Some of the books which belonged to this early age of English printing are still read with pleasure...